Researcher
Rik Willems
- Disciplines:Cardiac and vascular medicine
Affiliations
- Cardiology (Division)
Member
From1 Oct 2006 → Today
Projects
1 - 10 of 18
- Interaction of sports, genetics and arrhythmiaFrom20 Oct 2023 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Interventional X-ray system equipped with 3D rotational angiography for cardiovascular research in preclinical large animal models.From1 May 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO Medium Size Research Infrastructure
- Linking functional microarchitecture of the myocardial infarction borderzone to arrhythmogenesisFrom1 Jan 2021 → 31 Dec 2023Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- BLOOD PRESSURE INDUCED PREMATURE VENTRICULAR BEATS AS TRIGGERS FOR VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA IN ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHYFrom1 Oct 2018 → 30 Sep 2022Funding: BOF - Concerted Research Project from 1994
- Clin-IC: Medtech solutions for patientsFrom1 May 2018 → TodayFunding: IOF - mandates, IOF - Industrial Research Fund
- The athlete's heart: is there a thin line between health and disease? When and why do longterm training programs become unhealthy?From1 Nov 2017 → 23 Nov 2022Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Lifetime endurance exercise to prevent coronary artery disease. A comparison with late-onset endurance training and a sedentary lifestyle.From1 Oct 2017 → 30 Sep 2021Funding: FWO Applied Biomedical Research (TBM)
- Mechanisms of triggers and substrate of ventricular tachycardia in the myocardial infarction border zoneFrom1 Apr 2017 → 8 May 2023Funding: FWO fellowships
- Cardiac reserve and ventricular interdependence in right heart disease: diagnostic and therapeutic prospectsFrom1 Aug 2015 → 14 Dec 2021Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Microdomain modulation of ryanodine receptors in post-myocardial infarction remodeling of cardiac myocytes.From1 Jan 2015 → 31 Dec 2018Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
Publications
241 - 250 of 284
- Variable RyR Cluster Morphology in Sheep Atrial Myocytes: Super Resolution Measurement and Ca2+Release Simulation(2012)
Authors: Niall Macquaide, Jun-ichi Hotta, Tuan Hoang-Trong, George SB Williams, Rik Willems, Saleet Jafri, Johan Hofkens
Pages: 309A - 309A - Preventing sudden cardiac death in patients with ischaemic cardiomyopathy(2012)
Authors: V Floré, Rik Willems
Pages: 134 - 138 - Multiple shocks in a swimming pool: the hazards of alternating current leakage(2011)
Authors: Becker SN Azand, Niels Leemput, Paul Van de Voorde, Pieter Koopman, Christophe Carweg, Dieter Nuyens, Hein Heidbuchel, Rik Willems
Pages: 672 - 673 - Transvenous lead extraction of pacing and defibrillator leads: a single-center experience(2011)
Authors: Ruben Poesen, Filip Rega, Dieter Nuyens, Rik Willems
Pages: 641 - 648 - A marker of mayhem: macrovolt T-wave alternans preceding polymorphic ventricular tachycardia(2011)
Authors: Vincent Floré, Eric Van Wijngaerden, Rik Willems
Pages: 2488 - 2488 - Efficacy of radiofrequency catheter ablation in athletes with atrial fibrillation(2011)
Authors: Dieter Nuyens, Christophe Garweg, Andre La Gerche, Stijn De Buck, Rik Willems
Pages: 1386 - 93 - Failure of epicardial pacing leads in congenital heart disease: not uncommon and difficult to predict(2011)
Authors: Werner Budts, Alexander Van De Bruaene, Rik Willems, Bart Meyns, Filip Rega, Marc Gewillig
Pages: 331 - 335 - Failure of epicardial pacing leads in congenital heart disease: not uncommon and difficult to predict(2011)
Authors: MC Post, Werner Budts, Alexander Van De Bruaene, Rik Willems, Bart Meyns, Filip Rega
Pages: 331 - 335 - Microvolt T-wave alternans and beat-to-beat variability of repolarization during early postischemic remodeling in a pig heart(2011)
Authors: Vincent Floré, Piet Claus, Gudrun Antoons, Rik Willems
Pages: 1050 - 1057 - Long-term endurance sport is a risk factor for development of lone atrial flutter(2011)
Authors: Guido Claessen, E Colyn, Andre La Gerche, P Koopman, B Alzand, Christophe Garweg, Rik Willems, D Nuyens, H Heidbuchel
Pages: 918 - 922